→ be/come up against somebody/somethingat against(1)
2phrasal verbphr vPROBLEMto have to deal with problems or difficulties 必须处理[面对]〔问题或困难〕
We may find we come up against quite a lot of opposition from local people.
我们可能会遭到当地人的强烈反对。
You’ve got no idea of what you’re going to come up against.
你不清楚你将要面临什么样的问题。
Examples from the Corpus
come up against • In every direction he came up against his own incompleteness.• They looked at each other with the knowledge that they had come up against the edge of the permissible.• He repeated his question, and came up against the same smilingignorance.• When Bluecomes up against this question, he can no longer think.